re: Pulling aside the curtain
Grownups can read the whole speech, and know exactly what Bush was talking about. If this hypnotic technique is so effective, why didn't it work on you? Are you that much smarter than most Americans?
99th percentile. Enough said.
And you really don't want me to use that "juxtaposition trick" on some recent Democratic speeches.
Go for it. I'd welcome you proving to yourself and everybody else that the trick in fact exists and is widely known. While you're at it, why not examine some of Hitler's old speeches?